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2007

    DECEMBER
434 December 31, 2007 Brief Review of 2007 (How Our Officials Did in 2007 And Their Prospects for 2008. Last Day to Give in Old Year)
433 December 27, 2007 Lt. Govs in a Nutshell (New York's Lieutenant Governor: The Odd History of an Odd Job)
432 December 21, 2007 Spitzer's Annus Horribilis (Spitzer's 2007: Annus Horribilis But He is Trying to Improve)
431 December 14, 2007 Feathering One's Nest (Council Cares for Itself With a Generaous Hand)
430 December 13, 2007 Simcha Rules (Hon. Simcha Felder Enforces Oral Rule He Promulgated)
429 December 7, 2007 Rookie Year Deconstructed (Two Thorough Magazine Articles Deconstruct Spitzer's First Year, Governor Shakes Up His Team)
     
    NOVEMBER
428 November 27, 2007 An Attitude Adjustment (The Times Looks at Spitzer, Sees Flaws in His First Year. Recovery Hoped for in 2008)
427 November 21, 2007 Thanksgiving 2007 (Thanksgiving 2007)
426 November 08, 2007 How to Become a Senator (We Dip Into Political History To Tell You How and When Senators and Other Officials Are Elected in New York State)
425 November 02 , 2007 A Scolding, a Warning, and a Smart Move (Amid Editorial Criticism of Angry Words and Deeds, Spitzer Names Bruce Gyory To Work with Legislature)
     
    OCTOBER
424 October 30, 2007 When Will They Ever Learn? (Newspapers Criticize Spitzer On Driver's License U-Turn; Senate, Ethics Aides Setting Perjury Trap for Governor)
423 October 25, 2007 The Hobgoblin of Foolish Minds (How to Change Ones Mind as Circumstances Require )
422 October 18, 2007 Red Sky At Morn, Sailors Take Warn (State sliding Slippery Slope To More Deficit Financing; Spitzer Sees Medicaid Flaws)
421 October 15, 2007 Malcolm in the Muddle (Malcolm in the Middle As Spitzer, Bruno Fight In Prepartion for 2008)
420 October 09, 2007 Dopp Finds a New Job (Dopp Hops to Lobbyland, "I Wish I Could Quit You" Vacation Taken, He Flies, Seeking A Kinder Master)
419 October 05, 2007 Why The Alleged Scandal Matters (Why We Write About TrooperChopperGate Although it May be Coming Out Your Ears; It is a Battle For Control of New York State and a Test For Its Inexperienced Governor)
418 October 03, 2007 Who's The Demagogue?(Barrett Defends The Governor, Attacks Bruno, Doubts Cuomo Spitzer Criticizes Opponents Of Aliens' Driver Licenses)
417 October 02, 2007 Morally Dead, Ethically Dead?(Goodwin Raps Governor, We Find Literary Origins Of Spitzer on License Foes, Clinton on Gen. Petraeus)
     
    SEPTEMBER
416 September 28, 2007 Who Owns New York? (Wrong to Agree to Invite the Dictator, Right to Denoucne The Tyrant's Flaws, Very Good On Fighting Boycott)
415 September 28, 2007 Who Owns New York? (Spitzer Trashes Bloomberg His Last Ally in Government Over Illegal Aliens' Licenses)
414 September 26, 2007 Scandal or Farce (Albany D.A. Sees No Evil By Spitzer or Anyone Else But Hevesi Was a Felon. GOP Attacks Whitewash As Scandal Limp Along)
413 September 20, 2007 We Like You But Speak Up (New Yorkers Like Spitzer, 21, They Want His Testimony, 3-1. GOP Retains Speacial Counsel To Aid With Public Hearings.)
412 September 19, 2007 Flip Flop Flip Dopp (Flip Flop Flip Dopp Will Yield His E-mails After His Lawyer Balks)
411 September 10, 2007 In the Rough at 253 (Gov. Spitzer: Bloody But Unbowed, His Situation is Likely to Improve, GOP Charges Viewsd as Partisan)
410 Septmeber 06, 2007 Senators, Don't Drop the Soap (Sympathy for the Devil: Larry Craig is Defended As He Roasts on the Spit)
     
    AUGUST
409 August 31, 2007 Holiday Reading: Iraqis and Craig (Readers Want Iraqis Admitted; Sen. Craig Meets His Waterloo.)
408 August 29, 2007 The Boys From Boise (Relfections on a Senator Caught in Water Closet, What Would Idaho Do?)
407 August 27, 2007 How Should We Treat Our Firends? (Iraqis Who Helped Us Denied Entry Into U.S.)
406 August 23, 2007 The Towering Inferno (2007) (John Galt Shrugged, How Could he Know What Was Going On)
405 August 23, 2007 The Towering Inferno (2007) (John Galt Shrugged, How Could He Know What Was Going On)
404 August 20, 2007 A Tangled Web (World's Smartest Man Gets Self Into Trouble By Blaming the Help)
403 August 17, 2007 People Reject Racial Assignment (Poll Indicates Majority Opposes, School Placement on Race Alone But No NY Paper Prints Results)
402 August 15, 2007 The Public Be Warned (Warn Public If You Can Before Disaster Strikes, By Cell Phones, Landlines. Questions for Engineers)
401 August 14, 2007 Intifada- Shaking Off Oppression? (The Prophet Didn't Foresee Myriad Problems Affecting His Eponymous Academy.)
400 August 08, 2007 Surprise! Subway Flood. Who Knew? (Massive Subway Flooding Follows Overheated Day, Thunderstroms At Night. MTA is Not Informative.)
399 August 03, 2007 The Picadors Ply Their Trade ( Senate, DA Pursue Spitzer. Bruno Pal Loses In Court. Son Loves Vicious Mom. Arrogance of Rectitude)
398 August 01, 2007 The Face of Evil (Queen of Child Abuse Did it For the Money That Came From Us.)
     
    JULY
397 July 27, 2007 Give Truth a Chance (Advice for Governor Spitzer: All We Are Syahing is Give Truth a Chance)
396 July 24, 2007 Tell The Truth, Governor (Spitzer Is Beleaguered As Bruno's Chickens Come Home to Roost, Courtesy of A. Cuomo.)
395 July 20, 2007 See How They Run (Editorial Mercy:3 Mile Forgiven In Short Days )
394 July 17, 2007 The Harder They Fall (Dinapoli Trashes Hevesi, Calling His Predecessor "Unethical, Irresponsible" )
393 July 16, 2007 The Bigger They Come (2 Prosecutors Scramble Over Hevesi's Carcass, Hunting Beneficiaries of Politcal Largess)
392 July 10, 2007 78, 48 To Cuomo 49. Plummer 70 Axed (Accusations in Albany Go To Andrew Cuomo Quinn Fires Plummer)
391 July 06, 2007 Tough Talk at the Albany Corral (Bruno, 78, vs. Spitzer, 48 Wily Senator Challenges A Threatening Governor)
390 July 03, 2007 The House We Live In (Reflections on Independence Day)
     
    JUNE
389 June 28, 2007 Practical Advice For Subway Riders(Mayor Likes the Subway, But Rush Hour Patrons are Feeling the Squeeze.)
388 June 26, 2007 Pleasant Purprise: Cuomo and DiNapoli (Andrew Cuomo In Fast Start, Spitzer Praises Tom DiNapoli as the First Furlong Finishes.)
387 June 22, 2007 Can't We All Just Get Along? (Albany Packs It In, Few Achievements, Much Squabbling.)
386 June 20, 2007 Heart Says Yes, Mind Says Maybe (Mayor Mike Abandons Elephant, A Hindrance In National Poitics, As He Positions Himslef For 2008.)
385 June 15, 2007 Geraldine, Christine and Viola (Geraldine, Christine and Viola.)
384 June 13, 2007 There's Good News Tonight (Early City Budget Agreement 2.3 Billion is Set Aside For '09. Tales of Unrequested Ambition.)
383 June 11, 2007 Sun of Public Art (Sun Trashed Public Art, But Settling the Lawsuit May Have Been Prudent.)
382 June 08, 2007

Public Art (Brooklyn College Art Show: Clasped P-nis and Live Rat. City To Pay $56K to Can it. --Dread Scott and Dead Cop, Art of The Next Revolution. Why We Ignored it in 1994.)

381 June 08, 2007

Public Art (Brooklyn College Art Show: Clasped P-nis and Live Rat. City To Pay $56K to Can it. --Dread Scott and Dead Cop, Art of The Next Revolution. Why We Ignored it in 1994.)

380 June 06, 2007 What's In a Street Name? Honor. ("Assasinate His Ass" Is A Mixed Metaphor, What To Do About It?)
379 June 01, 2007 What Would Horace Do? (Teacher is Fired, Paper Censored at Horace Mann.)
     
    MAY
378 May 31, 2007 Eliot's Report Card: Jan-May '07 (The Governor at Day 151: How to Deal With Rogues Without Looking Foolish.)
377 May 25, 2007

Govt v. Media; Eliot's Elves at War Part II (Egotistic Executives, Self-Serving Scribes in Frequent Conflict & Spitzer Staff's Spats Described by Dicker, But Tale Stops There.)

376 May 25, 2007 Govt v. Media; Eliot's Elves at War (Egotistic Executives, Self-Serving Scribes in Frequent Conflict & Spitzer Staff's Spats Described by Dicker, But Tale Stops There.)
375 May 17, 2007 Thundering Hoofbeats (Eight Years Ago Today 5.17.99 Commuter Tax Was Repealed By Speaker Silver's Assembly. Loss to NYC So Far: $4 Billion.)
374 May 16, 2007 Inconvenient, But How True Is It? (Mayor on World Stage, But Congestion Pricing is a Tricky Local Issue.)
373 May 14, 2007 City: Yes; Feds: No; State: Maybe (Three Governments: City OK, Feds NG, State In A Struggle.)
372 May 10, 2007 Trimming the Fat, Ruffling Feathers (The Reduction of Waste in the Hospital Industry Will be Resisted Fiercely by Local Beneficiaries and Legislative Allies)
371 May 08, 2007 The Bloominator? (Bloomberg For Governor? It's on Page One of the Post, The Paper that Elected Koch)
370 May 04, 2007 A Cole Night in April (Why Should Assemblyman Have to Sleep on the Floor While Intern Hogs the Bed?)
369 May 01, 2007 Growing Up in Inwood (Growing Up in Inwood Watching Coal Delivery, Aided by Rent Control)
     
    APRIL
368 April 25, 2007 The Ph.D.s, the NRA, or Both? (Who Killed the Blacksburg 32? Virginia's Pathetic Gun Laws? The Incompetence of Shrinks? Could It Be Both?)
367 April 20, 2007 He Was Crazy, They Were Dumb (We Revisit The Virginia Tech Massacre. The Closer You Look, The Worse It Gets.)
366 April 18, 2007 Virginia Tech - The Accomplices (Sharing The Blame At Virginia Tech: Who Are The Enablers of 32 Deaths? Can Anyone Prevent Mass Murder?)
365 April 12, 2007 Your Pork, My Bacon (Prospect of State Surplus May Have Induced Spitzer To Compromise On Budget. $170M Provided For Pork.)
364 April 10, 2007 First 100 Days (We Look at Spitzers's First Hundred Days, Some Ups, One Down Budget Was a Tossup.)
363 April 05, 2007 Other People's Opinion (What They Think: Press and Public Rate the Budget.)
     
    MARCH
362 March 30, 2007 Day 89 -- What Happened (Three Days of Talks In Albany In Effort to Meet 4/1 Deadline Add Billion (s?) to State Budget.)
361 March 23, 2007 Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt (Three Levels of Government Have Substantial Debt Load. 1975 Fiscal Crisis Revisited.)
360 March 21, 2007 Exceptions to the Sixth Commandment (Thou Shalt Not Kill a Man Unless Thou Knowest Well That He Wouldst Kill Thee.)
359 March 12, 2007 Released Rapists and Potential Victims (Both Houses Pass a Bill to Keep Sex Offenders in 'Civic Confinement' Until They are Cured.)
358 March 09, 2007 Fire Under the Elms (Appellate Court Upholds City on Washington Square Park Renovations Can Go Ahead.)
357 March 05, 2007 Quoth ELS: "I'll Be LBJ" (Is the Triumvirate Acceptable If They Serve the Public Good? Spitzer Uses Bruno and Silver, Writer Criticizes Secret Deals.)
356 March 03, 2007 Spitzer's First Report (Spitzer Stars as He Reviews His First 60 Days in Office, Attacks Role of Hospitals in Billing Medicaid Costs.)
     
    FEBURARY
355 February 28, 2007 Judges: The Good, The Bad.... (What Makes A Good Judge? Begin With Great Integrity, Add Brains, Guts and Balls.)
354 February 22, 2007 The Longest Article Ever (How Judges Are Picked For Court of Appeals, And How it Used to Be.)
353 February 20, 2007 Valentine Escapes on Mardi Gras (Is Governor Spitzer Crazy Or is He Crazy Like a Fox?)
352 February 16, 2007 Spitzer in 2012? (Is Governor Spitzer Crazy Or is He Crazy Like a Fox?.)
351 February 15, 2007

It's WAR. Spitzer Strikes First Blow (The Battle of Albany: Gov. Spitzer Trashes The State Legislature Over Tom DiNapoli Says "Knockout Blow Is Coming Very Soon".)

350 February 09, 2007 Fillmore 2, DiNapoli 54 (An Assemblyman No Longer, DiNapoli is 54th Comptroller The Governor is Not Amused.)
349 February 07, 2007 No Non-Legislators Need Apply (Tale of Tom DiNapoli Comptroller Wannabe, Who May Get the Call to Replace Elected Guy.)
348 February 01, 2007 Be Kind To Man and Beast (It Is Not Likely That Governor Can Steamroller Legislature, Even When They Are Wrong.)
     
    JANUARY
347 January 26, 2007

Three Threes To Find One (Three Member Screening Panel Selected By Three Men In Room Calls Three People "Qualified" To Be N.Y. State Comptroller, Replacing the Elected Offical Who Had Driver Assist Ill Wife.)

346 January 23, 2007 Judges' Ex Drops a Dime (Ex-Wife Tells Daily News Mason Bought Judgeship But Didn't Support Kids, He Says His Ex is "Bitter".)
345 January 19, 2007 Wanted: Watchdog or Lapdog? (Selecting A Comptroller: Politicians Strive to Fill Vacancey They Created By Feeding Hevesi to Wolves.)
344 January 15, 2007 Odyssey in a Sewer (State of the Brooklyn Courts: Judgeships for Sale or Rent, Barrett's Two-Year Inquiry, Plus History of Scoundreland.)
343 January 08, 2007 Five Hundred Year Siesta (Badillo Says Hispanics Don't Value Education Due to 500-Year Siesta.)
342 January 08, 2007 Ambition in the Assembly (Ambition Exceeds Judgment As Assembly Rivals Compete for Normal Elected Office.)
341 January 04, 2007 Spitzer Aims High (State of The State: Spitzer Expresses Great Aspirations.)
340 January 02, 2007 Mr. Spitzer Goes to Albany (Spitzer Focuses on Ethics, Issues 5 Executive Orders Pledges Open Government.)